let me make clear this is a totally optional dialog. in the OnCapture options tab (and now also from manu) you can tell it what to do when a new screenshot is taken (restore main window, dont restore main window, and now this quick popup dialog).

so if you like taking long series of pics without using this, nothing will have changed for you.

this is an additional option for those people who like to take a pic, then decide whether to keep it or not. it's as simple as that.

when you use this dialog, it comes up before the file is ever saved to disk, so it comes up much faster, and discarding an image results in no wasted disk activity or clowdown.

i probably need to add something to that dialog that lets you choose not to diplay it any more since i'm afraid new users will conclude that the dialog is mandatory.

i do love the preview and the discard button!But i didn't see the benefit of see this new window then SCwindow itself!I only see an another step if i choose to work farther on with this current capture.And if i want to drop this shot i can do this in SCwindow directly.

The only good (for me) is the part that you not immediately save the capture to disk.But the preview i (i !) like to have in the SCwindow, where i can crop or zoom itand see than if i wanna keep it.

let me make clear this is a totally optional dialog. in the OnCapture options tab (and now also from manu) you can tell it what to do when a new screenshot is taken (restore main window, dont restore main window, and now this quick popup dialog).

yes, i have seen this option.

So allow me again my older question "why you didn't use SC to preview the capture bevor the user choose to save it?"

My old request is still an option "[X]Auto save Capture" in [On capture - General]which i would let disabled most of the time. Sorry i have to went offline soon (23:45)

But it seams most of the other user like this new dialog, so it's fine too (for the moment:)

you can zoom in the preview window with mouse wheel and left+right click, as long as you turn off the auto fit checkbox.

there are advantages to the mini window:1) its faster to display because its simpler and doesnt user thumbnail explorer browser.2) nice and small (if you resize it small) so it dont disturb your other work.3) you can just hit quick keys for keep, discard, print.4) doesnt autosave.. i might still add this to main sc.

Also, have you considered a way to do a drop-shadow inside an image? For example, I wanted to highlight an area to look like this:

But,

As you can see, the highlighting rectangle/circle affects the contrast of the image. Sometimes that's a good effect, but if the contrast of the highlight could be adjustable (and maybe the size of the drop-shadow) that seems like it'd do the trick.

Here's a feature suggestion that would make a huge difference in cranking out fancy results: it'd be awesome to have a way to chain effects. I dunno if a whole scripting language would be necessary -- maybe just a panel where you'd have the effect list on the left and buttons to copy left to right for an "event" list (alongside buttons to move the events up or down in the sequence). Is that too elaborate?

Here's an example. Say I capture a rectangular area of the desktop:

Then add a drop-shadow:

Use the option to blur/grey/dim the outside of a rectangular selection on the capture:

And finally, drop-shadow again:

If this were a stand-alone effect, you could call the effect ''plaque'' since it kinda looks like one of those formal plaques you sometimes see as achievement awards or dedications. Here's another example using the object from the first item:

Don't forget that there are some good paint/image manipulation programs out there, and Screenshot Captor is designed to work well with them! Take the time to configure Paint.net or Paintshop Pro, or Photoshop,etc. as the graphic editor or as a TOOL in screenshot captor and you can very easily edit images with your graphics editor and have SC automatically detect changes and load them back in without losing any objects (text, arrows).

Definitely! I've already got IrfanView set up in the Tools menu, and I'm still gonna add GIMP and maybe MS Paint. (Whoops, never mind on Paint, I forgot I've already got IrfanView set up to spawn Paint as the external editor.)

I had to show you one more. You remember the "torn paper" mask you include with Captor? I copied it to the Frames dir and used both at the same time after a drop-shadow with (I think) pretty cool results.

This version has the long requests non-automatic save option (See On Capture tab).This is still a bit experimental so use with caution:when you enable this option, each new capture will not automatically be saved (unless you modify it), so new images will overwrite old until you save.

It should speed up captures significantly, but you have to be careful you dont take 10 captures in a row in this mode without saving and then open up the window to find only your last capture has been kept.

I look forward to hearing your impressions of this new mode and whether you find it useful.

(note: i've started locking the update threads so please post impressions on a separate thread).